Last Pirate Bay founder arrested

Two of the three founders of The Pirate Bay were in police custody, with Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden and Gottfrid Svartholm being sentenced to 3.5 years in the clink. However, this week, the third co-founder, Fredrik Neij, was arrested while trying to get across the border to Thailand.

If you haven't been keeping up, Neij ran away from Sweden after a court convicted him of contributing to copyright infringement in 2009. It seems Neij legged it to Laos and travelled to Thailand often.

Thai media has reported that "U.S. movie companies" had hired an attorney to locate Neij and he was subsequently arrested under a warrant from Interpol.

"It might have been a coincidence, but he was wearing the same gray T-shirt that was in the photo. The immigration police officer who spotted him in the car recognized him, so he pulled his car over," the regional Thai police commissioner said.

This is a big, big arrest, but The Pirate Bay will inevitably continue to do what it does - as with all torrents, they always have a contingency plan and the authorities end up playing an expensive version of whack-a-mole.

As ever, the Thai police weren't one to miss of photo opportunity and shoved Neij before the cameras and all stood around him like the world's most formal hip hop crew.

No-one really looks very happy in this photo do they? Maybe the police are wondering where they'll get their hooky versions of Game of Thrones from now?